partitioning a HD for home gaming server?

[sephroth777]

Wondering if the following is necessary for a home gaming server running WIn 2000 Advanced Server with a 9GB HD.

C: Windows 2000 Advanced Server 2GB
D: Swap File 1GB
E: Games 2 GB
F: Downloads/Transfers 4GB

Is it worth partitioning out the hard drive or just install everything on one partition....asking in terms of performance. Running most likely ONLY a counter-strike server.


THANKS!

 

[everman]

I always keep my partitions seperate depending on the type of data they contain. You could keep things like config files and anything else you wouldn't want to loose on a data partition, programs on another, os on another etc.

 

[Lord Evermore]

It's not really worth it or necessary. You won't see any performance differences. Partitioning is only useful for "sorting", but in most cases for most users, that's what directories/folders are for. It can help with keeping "data" files separate from applications to make for easy backups and OS reinstalls, but most applications and many games require you to reinstall if you ever needed to reinstall the OS, so having the apps and games on a different partition doesn't make any difference. Having "data" files separate makes it easy to back them up altogether.

Putting the swap file on a partition AFTER the OS would actually possibly decrease performance, since the fastest part of the drive is in the first partition.

Why are you running 2k Advanced Server for a CounterStrike server?

 

[PCMarine]

Why are you running CS on a $1000 OS. Unless of course you <insert illegal activity here>'ed it

 

[PCMarine]

oops double post